Jason Slagle wrote:
>
> Howdy! 2.4.0 is looking almost ready except 1 HY00GE problem I'm having.
>
> I'm SMP here 2 Celeron 300A's at 450 in an Abit BP6. 256M of RAM, all
> SCSI.
>
> System will run for a week no problems.
>
> Then I compile mozilla and all hell breaks loose.
>
> Compile will go for a bit then it'll hang and need SAK'd. w and ps and
> top will then hang. loadavg is over 4 and I can't paticuraly see whats
> causing it. Meminfo looks fine but it's acting like it's outta RAM. I'm
> like 37 megs into swap when it happened with over 100 megs of buffer
> cache.
>
> Pretty normal setup here except these:
>
> echo "1024 2048 4096" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
> echo "5 10 60" > /proc/sys/vm/buffermem
> echo "16384" >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
> echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
>
> These bad? They worked well under 2.2 but who knows under 2.4
>
> Please advise, will provide any info I can if needed.
>
> Jason
Hmm... Possibly VM related.
Are you using 2.4.0-test9? There are some not so nice things that
are fixed in later "test10-preX" (from "testing" subdirectory,
pre3 might be the best choice)
Even if you are using test10 you could run vmstat 1 and include
a typical part. An ALT-SysRq-M (need magic sysrq compiled and enabled)
could be useful too.
/RogerL
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